What To Do When You Mess Up The Bios

[Pierce]

Okay, my friend has a Sager laptop with a phoenix bios. Now he flashed the bios using the phoenix flash manager or w/e the program name is. He then tried rebooting and all he gets is a "black screen" it tries to look at the cd and thats it.

I need to know if thers a way to recover corrupted bios, he proclaims that because it has the "bootlock" (which i think is a password protect of some sort) that it still has some basic functions left to accept a new flash from cd/floppy.

If anybody knows what to do it would be greatly appreciated.

Pierce

[murtu52]

Well, i got this from phoenix's site after some searching around:

PhoenixBIOS -- On a computer with a PhoenixBIOS, you can press the F9 key in Setup to restore the default values specified by the manufacturer.

Here is the link: Phoenix

[Pierce]

we are not talking about bios setup, as the bios is completly gone, no screen, nothing only thing it does is check the cd-rom drive period.

Pierce

[TheTerrorist_75]

BIOSMAN Replacement BIOS Chips Edited May 8, 2005 by TheTerrorist_75

[murtu52]

we are not talking about bios setup, as the bios is completly gone, no screen, nothing only thing it does is check the cd-rom drive period.

Pierce

oh, i see...i was under the impression that the flashed bios worked, it was just corrupted...

[Chappy]

So, you're saying that you need to recover or replace the Chip itself?

There are recovery steps you can try on the link that TheTerrorist_75 gave you, but if you need to replace the chip and it is NOT a socketed chip, then you'll need a new MoBo.